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by mnau 816 days ago
Even simple regexs can be problematic, e.g. Gitlab RCE bug through ExifTools

https://devcraft.io/2021/05/04/exiftool-arbitrary-code-execu...

> "a\ > ""

> The second quote was not escaped because in the regex $tok =~ /(\\+)$/ the $ will match the end of a string, but also match before a newline at the end of a string, so the code thinks that the quote is being escaped when it’s escaping the newline.